The results are in for the May 2017 Dumbledore Silver Trinket Awards. Huge thanks to everyone who voted, and congratulations to all the winners and everyone who was nominated. Nominations are now being accepted for the July 2017 awards.

Wow, I'm speechless. I'd hoped for five reviews, and there are already 18, and a birdie. Wow. Thanks. Oh, and congrats to all the other winners!

GHL came out of the woodwork on 2017.07.30 - 06:33AM to say:

Definitely the sort of results that speak to the site's continued vibrancy -- a delightful mix of stories by a lively mix of authours spanning from the old guard to the newly minted, with some mid-experience tossed in there for good measure.

For historical perspective, you might have noticed that one authour had three different stories recognised in the same set of Trinket awards -- a performance that has only ever been bested once on SIYE (i.e., some years back there was a contributor who had 4 stories recognised in the same Trinkets announcement).

Any guesses who that might be? [Hint: the name is somewhere above]

potterfan2008 came out of the woodwork on 2017.07.30 - 05:31PM to say:

Thank you so much for both the nominations and the votes! I appreciate the support for my stories. I'm guessing that Northumbrian and I are the old guard mentioned above :). Almost breaking a record - that's pretty cool! Thanks everyone!

rbrt_emmer came out of the woodwork on 2017.08.25 - 12:20AM to say:

Just out of pure curiosity, is Northumbrian the most honored writer on the site? I mean, scrolling through his stories 33 of the 42 stories he's posted on SIYE have either won challenges/silver trinkets or been honorably mentioned.

GHL came out of the woodwork on 2017.08.26 - 12:26PM to say:

That's an interesting question. If you evaluate based (as you suggest) on the total number of stories that have been recognised then, obviously yes -- Northumbrian has the largest number with 33. Spenser Hemmingway is second with 28 (mostly challenge awards).

If you evaluate based on total number of awards (assuming that a single story can earn multiple plaudits), then things are much more complicated and I won't hazard a guess. Matters get confused by the fact that Trinkets started out as a monthly recognition, which means that early writers piled up awards a lot faster than those more recent contributors.

All that aside, I suspect that several of our current authours (Northumbrian, Potterfan2008, Brennus, Melindaleo, etc.) would fare rather well on that metric too, despite the imbalance.